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Dulwich Picture Gallery: The World’s First Purpose-Built Art Gallery

London Museums, Memorials and Monuments, Top spots / May 24, 2023

I recently paid a visit to the beautiful Dulwich Picture Gallery: the world’s oldest purpose-built art gallery. Not only does it house an incredible art collection with works by Constable, Rembrandt and Gainsborough, but it has some incredible architecture to admire and even contains a mausoleum… Early Origins: The Elizabethan Actor In 1605 Edward Alleyn, […]

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7 Highlights Of The Bank Of England Museum

All posts, London Museums / April 12, 2023

London is, of course, full of brilliant, often free, museums. You can read all my blog posts on London museums/exhibitions here. I recently went to the Bank of England Museum for the first time in years. Commerce, trade and finance are all so integral to the story of London and this is a great museum

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St Bride Foundation: A Hidden Gem Off Fleet Street

All posts, Hidden Gems, London Museums / March 1, 2023

Turn off bustling Fleet Street into the much narrower and quieter Bride Lane. Walk past the back of Wren’s 17th century St Bride’s Church… … and you will find a historical hidden gem: the St Bride Foundation. From the early 1700s up until the 1980s, Fleet Street was the centre of London’s thriving newspaper business.

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A Fascinating Map Of Tudor London

All posts, Hidden Gems, London Museums, Top spots / February 22, 2023

I love a good map. Old maps, I find, are one of the most amazing resources for getting in touch with London’s history and the lives of past Londoners. In the Guildhall Art Gallery you can find a bright, enlarged version of one of the earliest maps of London. It is known as the Agas

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The Only Surviving Residence Of Artist JMW Turner

All posts, Hidden Gems, London Museums / February 15, 2023

On what is now a quiet residential street in Twickenham you will find the only surviving home of one of Britain’s greatest artists: JMW Turner. Not only that, but he actually designed it himself. Today it is tucked between terraces of Victorian houses but when built, the surrounding area would have looked very different. JMW

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